『나마스테』에 나타난 타자성의 두 양상

Abstract

I analyzed aspects of diaspora and alterity in Bumsin Park's novel,Namaste, from two standpoints. The one is alterity rooted in conceptualdifference, and the other is alterity in nunbuchoe(Buddha-in-eye)-difference. The conceptual difference is returned to identity finally. Nunbuchoe(Buddha-in-eye)-difference is not returned to identity. This difference isan absolute and ultimate difference, and it can be reached by sensibilityand transcendental experience. It makes him to throw away his identityand to reveal self as the other. In the reason of the difference inBuddha-in-eye, the distinction between this and that falls apart, the power,the discourse of exclusion and the violence which held inside of it loosetheir strength gradually. In the light of alterity in conceptual difference, this novel is a goodwork. Park, having multi-culturalism and buddhist world-view, not onlydescribed objectively the miserable reality of migrant laborers in Koreabut also presented a tragic vision. However, he could not reach to the alterity in nunbuchoe-difference,and regarded migrant laborers as the object of mercy. It is the otheringof migrant laborers. Park represented hero, Kamil as a very highly goodman. Even though Korean break his leg and cut off his finger, Kamildo not hate and blame Korean. Kamil is not a subject as a subalternbut a good other represented by writer. That is the violence of representation. Such writer's views are in accord with Korean bourgeois's ideology thatthey should respect difference as long as migrant laborers are a good other. This work substitutes ethnic contradiction for class contradiction incapitalist society. Existentialist sufferings and various wrinkles and foldsof life in contradictory reality are simplified to ethnic problem. Finally,this work solves problems to return to the mythic world, Kailas. Thewriter, without a keen recognition and confrontation for irrationality ofworld, looks migrant laborer in the view of conceptual difference andKorean bourgeois ideology. I suggest that the novel about migrant workershould create a character and narrative, and the world of work from theparadigm of the alterity in nunbuchoe-difference.